Theres no end to it. Gravity appears to be madly greedy and long armed. Members of the Virgo Super cluster are connected to each other, and theyre dozens of millions of light-years apart. Objects in the Pisces-Cetus Super cluster complex are even connected to each other by our invisible and obnoxiously possessive friend. And they are hundreds of millions of light years apart

In fact, youre so popular that you are gravitationally pulled towards even most distant object in the observable Universe. And they, in turn, are linked to you. As a result, without the outward expansion and acceleration of the Universe, everything would fall inward to a common center of gravity. Newton thought that gravity was instantaneous and if the Sun disappeared, the Earth would immediately fly away. Einstein realized that gravity is distortions of spacetime caused by mass. And as it turns out, gravity moves at the speed of light.

Gravity operates as a repulsive force at a distance and attractive near it... How would this work...

The Rubber sheet model is WRONG.

Well or not precise..

Imagine the rubber sheet stretched over an above ground pool with NO air space between the sheet and the water and sealed perfectly along the edge...

The Drop a bowling ball in there to represent the sun... Marbles will continue to orbit around it... but look at the edge of the pool.... notice anything... it is is RAISED... ie REPLUSIVE at a distance!

Morons who think up the gravity as heavy ball on a rubber sheet forgot about the other side of deformation, the repulsive part..

"The ground-based LIGO experiment might someday detect a gravitational wave, but theres been no luck so far. The Space-based LISA experiment should detect gravitational waves with more precision. The first version will launch in 2015, but the real experiment probably wont be operational until 2030."

Robert Forward (SF writer, scientist, all around smart guy) was searching for Gravity Waves at UCLA in the late 50's. There may have been earlier experiments. But so far we have zero evidence that they exist. Very odd. Very strange.

I never heard the heavy ball thing before. But there is a lot of stuff about gravity actually pushing rather than pulling. It’s kinda based on something called “the ether”, an old term about space. And it does explain why light slows down when passing through water and then speeds up again once it passes through.

I imagine an infinite number of rope tows intersecting at every point in the universe. Energy grabs onto one of these and never goes as fast as the rope tow, but loses its grip a bit when passing through some items. And when a large mass blocks the rope tow, it reduces the speed further, allowing more grip on the rope tow going in exactly the opposite direction. When in stasis, the energy has an equal grip on all the rope tows passing through all the points it comes into contact with.

And it’s funny how atheistic self-described scientists want to claim that such laws write themselves. Just like the codes in our DNA (incredibly more complex than any computer code mankind ever devised) wrote themselves.

but look at the edge of the pool.... notice anything... it is is RAISED... ie REPLUSIVE at a distance!

Sure, but that's because your demonstration is contained within a finite structure sitting atop a fluid medium. That said, there are the things we know about gravity which can then be used to determine some of its other properties.

But only the Almighty knows how gravity or magnetism or other forces really work. At least for now...

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posted on 04/07/2014 9:41:25 AM PDT
by Errant
(Surround yourself with intelligent and industrious people who help and support each other.)

Push implies repulsion versus attraction. If thats what gravity did, wed fly off the earth rather than stay on it, and meteors would not land on the planet.

Yeah, that was how I saw it until I read the nuances in the theories.

When I was VERY young (like six), A friend of ours had one of those newfangled color TV’s. Now, my dad had actually explained to me, at a VERY high level, how TV’s worked. When he and his friend were messing around with the color TV, as a child, all I was noticing was them making the screen a full blue tint or full red tint and I remember (to this day) thinking, “Who would want a TV that gave the black and white picture a color tint?” It is because I knew that it was impossible to produce a picture that had multiple colors in it. I mean, that’s not how the electron beam worked. It didn’t come in colors.

The “push” theories don’t describe a force where the earth would be pushing us off the surface. Instead, they theorize that pressure is coming from all directions pushing us down to hold us against the earth. In those theories, the “attraction” we experience is a result of a graviational shadow... the earth blocks us from the pressure from one direction, so the pressure is no longer in equilibrium and we feel a pull in one direction.

“In the case of black holes I begin to wonder if there is a speed of gravity.”

Well, there are really two different things going on here. There is a “speed of gravity”, that is equivalent to the speed of light, but this just means that any change in gravity would propagate at the speed of light. When it comes to gravity from black holes trapping light, it is able to do this because even the speed of light is lower than the escape velocity to get out of a black hole’s gravity well.

Would you like to show us where Haisch, Rueda are mistaken in their proof for F = ma can be rewritten to show the zero point field is actually the source for inertia? I’ll link you to the Physics Journal articles again, if you wish.

"...But inspite of these two limitations, our analysis yielded a remarkable and unexpected result: that Newton`s equation of motion, f=ma, regarded since 1687 as a postulate of physics could be derived from Maxwell`s laws of electrodynamics as applied to the ZPF. This implication is not an innate property of matter, rather it is an electromagnetically-derived force (or quantum vacuum derived force in a future more general derivation).

... (4) Relativistic rest mass: the relationship of the mass of a body and the total energy available by perfect annihilation of the mass in the body, that is expressed in the E=mc^2 relation of special relativity.

... One can imagine a universe, for example, in which inertial mass m_{i}, and passive gravitational mass m_{g} were different.... but then objects would not fall with the same acceleration in a gravitational field and there would be no principle of equivalence to serve as the foundation of general relativity.

... In other words, if one begins with Maxwell`s equations as applied to the ZPF, one finds from the laws of electrodynamics that f_{r}=-m_{zp}a and thus if one assumes that the electromagnetic parameter m_{zp} really is the physical basis of mass, Newton`s third law of equal and opposite forces f=-f_{r} results in a derivation of f=ma from the electrodynamics of the ZPF. That being the case, one can, in principle dispense with the concept of inertial mass altogether. Matter consisting of charged particles (quarks and electrons) interacts with the electromagnetic ZPF and this yields a reaction force whenever acceleration takes place and that`s the cause of inertia."

My theory ... osmosis ... if I'm right, you heard it here on FR first. Now ... if only I could identify the semipermeable "membrane"-like component of matter and the "solute"-like component that permeates our universe. Then the existence of another universe, having a lesser concentration of the "solute", could be inferred. And, perhaps, not all matter contains the "membrane". It may simply be friction of the "solute" passing through us toward the "membrane" at the Earth's core that holds our feet to the soil. Perhaps only the celestial bodies have this "membrane" at their cores and have collected the debris the "solute" dragged with it to build mass. Mass may be the product of osmosis-gravity ... not the cause.

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posted on 04/07/2014 10:26:16 AM PDT
by so_real
( "The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.")

At this moment, the mass of the entire Earth is pulling down on me, yet I can temporarily move my entire mass away from it by exerting less than 1 calorie of energy.

Another is that because of gravity, the universe and our reality are nothing like what they appear. For example, the Earth does not have a simple elliptical orbit around the Sun. If you could actually look at it, the Earth traces a wobbly orbit around the Sun. Why? Because the Earth is locked with our moon, which is relatively large. The Earth and moon actually orbit each other, with the center of mass being what orbits the Sun.

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posted on 04/07/2014 10:46:28 AM PDT
by SampleMan
(Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)

“Yes, but this is the same as the ether that was put to bed in name only.”

Not really. The concept as it existed is defunct, it failed experimental verification.

There are other concepts nowadays that you could say are similar to an “ether”, such as the cosmic background radiation or the Higgs field, but these are similar only in extent. Neither actually shares the properties proposed for the luminiferous ether, which would be a prerequisite to making any theory requiring an ether to work.

You never linked me to such an article in the first place, you must have me mistaken for someone else.

Besides, you can do a great many things with mathematics, which may or may not end up reflecting the reality of the world around us, which is why physics requires experimental verification. Push gravity theories have consistently failed experimental verification, so rambling on about math can’t save them.

Either way, it fails experimental verification. In order for the ether to do what you need it to do for the theory to work, it has to have certain qualities, and those qualities have been determined experimentally to not be present.

You can propose a million different kinds of ethers, but the ones you need have been proven not to exist.

When young, studying physics on my own, I thought through concepts I was studying regarding gravity, the Michelson-Morley experiment, etc. I noticed that the MM experiment to detect luminiferous ether was conducted in only one plane...horizontal. With a bit more thought, I realized that if LE were to be detected, it would have to be detected horizontally. With still more thought, I tentatively concluded that gravity is LE ‘falling’ to earth (to any mass, actually, but that which is ‘falling’ to earth is ‘pushing’ smaller things like me towards the earth). Reading on other experiments like those demonstrating the Mossbauer effect gave me support for my thoughts.

(I even built my own MM interferometer to play around w/ my ideas)

I still wish I could discuss this with someone willing & knowledgeable.

Robert Forward (SF writer, scientist, all around smart guy) was searching for Gravity Waves at UCLA in the late 50's. There may have been earlier experiments. But so far we have zero evidence that they exist. Very odd. Very strange.

Bernard Haisch, et al, have postulated that the zero point field (of what Feynman called ‘partons’ in his QED) gives rise to inertial mass by an electromagnetic van der Waals force at the quark level of mass. Think of it as a pool filled with marbles and anything in the mass of marbles is being pushed from all directions by the marbles, so if you try to move you are pushing against a resistance from the marbles and that resistance will be proportional to the effort you put into trying to move. The equation F = ma (force equals mass times acceleration) can be rewritten to show the mass as sourced in ‘parton push’, with partons sized at the Planck scale for wave form.

I'm wondering how you can post this with a straight face! ... "and those qualities have been determined experimentally to not be present."

First, you won't even read a new way of approaching the issues, a way that has been around in proposition since Maxwell's quaternian equations. And you certainly cannot be up to date on propositions of an 'aether' if you aren't even familiar with the theory of ZPE (even Feynman affirmed it). So how is it that you can make or choose to make such sweeping assertions, from such a limited information position?

BTW, any patents applied for utilizing anything approaching a tap into the zpe has been classified by the Government 'in the interest of national security'. Which of course protects the oil and gas monopoly that runs our planet.

I would direct you to the source of that assertion regarding patents, but since you're not interested I won't. You have a Steven Jones scent to you.

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